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With the arrival of this weekend's Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, we find ourselves (once again) discussing *damn* how great a genre filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is. I mean, he's a wonderful filmmaker all around, but I include the word "genre" as an indication of my respect for the man. He's so knee-deep in horror, dark fantasy, and pulp fiction that I doubt he'd even WANT to do a straight courtroom drama. (I'd go see it though.) One of the most creative storytellers since the also-awesome Terry Gilliam, Guillermo del Toro hopes you'll want to take another spin with Hellboy this weekend, and that got us thinking ... if you could convince the director to do another sequel, which would it be. And why, knucklehead?
For me, I'd love to see another movie in the vein of The Devil's Backbone, but then again ... I wouldn't really want a sequel to that particular masterpiece. But fine, once the man is all done with his Hobbit movies, I say let him resurrect the Blade franchise. His chapter was (far and away) the best of that series.
1. None of those.
Let's see him go back to the At The Mountains of Madness adaption he was working on before The Hobbit snatched him away. Either that or another Lovecraft story like, The Dunwich Horror, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward...any of the best ones.
del Toro seems to me, uniquely suited to adapting Lovecraft's work faithfully to the big screen.
Posted at 12:08PM on Jul 7th 2008 by Adam Wright